user inactivity and screen blanking

Mark Baranowski markb at giga.UUCP
Wed Apr 11 10:46:03 AEST 1990


No, no, no, no.  Every respondent to this request seems to be missing
the boat.  The original poster wanted much more than just a
screen-blank program.  He wanted a program that would automatically
lock-up the console after an appropriate amount of inactivity and
require a password from the user to re-enable the console.  If anyone
knows of such a critter I would sure like to get my hands on it.

How many times have any of us wandered away from our terminals for a
"quick" break and end up getting detoured?  Sometimes my detours last
for days after which when I return I discover that I forgot to log
off.

-- 
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